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“C2020Ensuring that developersprovide plenty of convenientcycle parking will preventfuture problems andappropriately value thecontribution that cyclingmakes to the city“New developmentsAdequate cycle parking needs to be included inevery new development built in Cambridge. Manydevelopers are failing in their duties to provide adequatecycle parking facilities with their sites and the planningauthorities have sometimes done little to tackle this.Many new developments planned for the city are nottaking the provision of cycle parking seriously. Proposalsare regularly being brought to the city council’s planningcommittee with insufficient cycle parking spaces, andoccasionally with a reduction in the number of cycleparking spaces already there. For instance, the plans forexpansion of the Lion Yard shopping centre include noshopper cycle parking, a disgraceful flouting of the CityCouncil’s Cycle Parking Standards.More pressure needs to be put on developers to meet thestandards laid down in planning guidelines regardingcycle parking and there needs to be swifter and tougherenforcement against those who fail in this regard.The Campaign would like to see…> One or more car parking spaces given over to cycle parking in each existing Cambridge street- about one space for every five houses, to start with> More cycle parking in residential areas and the city centre and at workplaces and shops.> The abolition of “pavement car parking”> The City Council enforce their own agreed Cycle Parking Standards in every new residential andcommercial developmentCYCLING2020SECTIONNINE.. Cycle parkingSECTIONNINE.. page29